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Originally Posted by FuglyStick
So let me get this straight--
The Tea Party, the jokers who are constantly rambling on about "personal responsibility" and "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps;"
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Why do you take a base positive of conservative politics (taxation with regard to it’s constituents’ p.o.v.s and desires) and then degrade it with rhetoric.
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Originally Posted by FuglyStick
who oppose national healthcare because "I got mine; if you don't, tough titties;"
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B.s. we never OPPOSED national healthcare, we just didn’t want some “hidden” bill secretly passed without full disclosure and understanding of what it meant to the average citizen, we wanted to insure this bill would do what it is supposed to do with the greatest benefit for all without breaking the backs of middle class Americans.
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Originally Posted by FuglyStick
who oppose the regulation of Wall Street because they see it as a threat to the free market,
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Where does it say we oppose regulations that would benefit out nations growth, find that for me.
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Originally Posted by FuglyStick
even though the reckless practices of Wall Street led us down the path to a recession;
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And you blame the republicans for this, why precisely?
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Originally Posted by FuglyStick
who see nothing wrong with racial profiling and violating civil rights to keep those "brown people" in check
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WHAT….. are you kidding me, what right do you have to assume that all conservatives could, or would believe this as an appropriate “reaction” to terrorist attacks on our nation terrorist attacks that destroyed the world trade centers and all those (non-combatant) innocents therein, downed 4 nearly full commercial jets with private citizens and exposed the hate of other countries toward the U.S. There was no brown-people profiling, there was terrorist profiling, actually, there was little bit of profiling in that, we were all checking grandmas too and baby sisters, don’t want anyone to think we assumed a particular sect where attempting to kill us all. A bit dramatic there, don’t you think, Fugly, the reality is most of those attacks and the following attacks were perpetrated by Muslim men, and some women, what was there to profile, the reality was pretty obvious, what I don’t understand is how some liberals seem to come across in a way as “we must of deserved it” and apologizing’ish for upsetting someone else so much that they want to kill us, why is that, oh, wait, I’m just another one of your crazy conservatives, right?
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Originally Posted by FuglyStick
--THESE SAME MOTHERFUCKERS are perfectly okay with giving a multi-billion industry a get out of jail free card and chalking up a global ecological disaster as "oops, accidents happen"?!
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bs, Obama has handed out plenty in an attempt to recover the economical fuck up of many in our nation, not all were conservatives, and fugly, I’ve never fucked a mother, I am a mother so I guess I’m more of a motherfucked, especially by citizens like yourself who just can’t help profiling based on which political house you live in.
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Originally Posted by FuglyStick
Two things should be completely obvious to even the most obtuse observer. First, the Tea Party platform is nothing but blatant hypocrisy. Second, the Tea Party is a populist tool of big business, who care nothing about your rights as an individual and everything about big business' pursuit of the almighty fucking dollar. So go right ahead, Baggers, and march lock step in time with the corporate drummer boy; eventually, all lemmings end up falling off the cliff.
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1. Your no better than they are with you self-righteous indignations and your own one-sided take on reality
2. You just perpetuate the stereotypical name calling finger pointer who doesn’t want to solve any problem just point them out and blame everybody else.
Let’s see how much more haters I can find here:
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Originally Posted by guy44
I think what you are forgetting here is just how insanely funny it is to have an opponent who kept shouting that they were teabaggers. It was hilarious. I miss that.
The funniest comment I've seen on the topic is that the these conservatives should come up with a new, anti-Democratic Party name: Donkey Punchers!
Ah, 2009. Those were good times.
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So lovely, I didn’t realize I was ANTI-democratic, I mean I guess I MUST be if I am pro something I must absolutely be “anti” also. Just because I like blue, doesn’t mean I hate orange, blue just happens to be my favorite, but orange is my son’s favorite color and I love it too, why can’t I be a conservative, a republican and still respect and admire the same qualities of Americanism in the liberals, the democrats that are also found in me. TPF has a lot of friends who haven’t quite figured this fact out and believe wrongly and in the process continue to perpetuate the “to have an opponent” WITHIN the American people, Americans are not by definition “Opponents” why is this so hard to acknowledge, why perpetuate ignorant bias racist thinking and rhetoric by implying one party has more participate that define it as such than another, it’s not truth. Why do you refer to me as your opponent, aren’t we both fighting FOR the same country?
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Originally Posted by Tully Mars
That's pretty much exactly how the majority of liberals felt during the eight years of the Bush Jr. Admin. Anything you said that didn't line up with Bush Admin. made you a terrorist loving, America hating liberal bastard. Funny thing is a lot of those liberal bastards were complaining about, among other things, the cost of the war(s) and the fact Bush simply removed their costs from the budget. Bush never vetoed one budget item that I know. His Admin. spent money like drunken sailor in a whore house. Now the tea party is all about limiting government spending... where were these good conservatives for the Bush years?
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Wow, and I thought all Americans at that time were holding hands and waving flags in solidarity for those who had died and those who were going to die in defense of our great nation, I guess I was wrong and it was all about politics, damn me. You know that statement above, after reading it again, is simply spiteful and derelict, imo. How can someone take the terrorist attacks that occurred on our own lands too our own people and turn them into such political bull shit? We declared war on a nation of people willing to die to kill us, they are called terrorist, they are not called Muslims or brown people for the specific reason that not all Muslims hate us and not all brown people are Muslims or hate us, they are called terrorist because they have vowed to destroy our way of life, all Americans. War costs money Tully, it was never about democrats or republicans, it was about America, at least that’s how I saw it.
It’s amazing, all the anti-republican rhetoric I need, is right here in the threads of TFP, the TFP brotherhood, that is supposed to be open to all, is greatly closed off, to a degree, to those who are conservative, who see themselves as republicans, it is as if those non-conformists who are "welcomed" here is merely a veiled reason to keep around some dogs to kick when you need a good laugh, or when the issues become more than a forest, it’s easier to just call the trees names and cut them down so you can “see” your own viewpoint better…… eventually there will be nothing left but empty dirt with hills in the distance where trees grown and get along, because we republicans would not be here amongst such seemingly staunch liberals if we didn’t agree with many of your opinions and want to play along, together, hello…..stop with the hating people, I am tiring of it and at time longing to just move on. I travel through you website and read all the work you are doing to keep people interested in this site, and yet it comes across so one sided, you lose out on 50% of you audience and overwhelm the rest of the conservatives with degrading attacks, seriously, I could do this in many threads where the attacks seem to fall back to name calling politics, it’s childish after awhile. I am not immune to it either.
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Originally Posted by kutulu
It's too bad that the the Conservatives don't have their own cable news network to voice their opinions, or own all the talk radio in the country, or run hundreds of think tanks and thousands of blogs for the Conservatives to express their voices. Oh wait, they do.
For the second part, welcome to being the minority party. Maybe you remember how the left's character was assassinated for 8 years. The attacks from the left are nothing compared to what the right gave out during the Bush years. It's a classic case of being able to dish it out but not being able to take it.
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We assassinated you character, I don't recall doing that, what exactly did we "give out." I can take it, but if it is just more name calling and rhetoric, I'm not going to, nor have I ever been, an enemy of the American people, I am the American people, just as you are also.
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Originally Posted by FuglyStick
The Tea Party only stands for one thing--run the negro out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Once primaries are done, and the November election cycle gets into full swing, the Tea Party is going to have to run on what they stand FOR, and not what they stand AGAINST. And the truth is, they don't have a platform, other than being opposed to whatever the White House has to say. Rand Paul is just the first to be called out; come election time, the Tea Party house of cards will topple over when it's shown it has no substance, just a lot of huffing and puffing.
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Again, I am compared to a racist because of my party affiliations, bull shit..... you perpetuate hatred in comments like this and perpetuate attacks on republicans by your wrongly assumed innuendos and sheeting remarks that cover our entire party with your incendiary labels poorly “shrouded” in your self promoting remarks.
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Originally Posted by dc_dux
Oh and I agree the Tea Party movement has become an astroturf, faux populist movement....the original intent may have been noble, but, because it was a movement w/o a leader, it has been co-opted.
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A movement lead by the people of a nation does not always need a spearhead, and sometimes trying to apply a way of thinking to a single individual greatly reduces the movements ideology, we are not picking leaders to follow we are having wackos thrown in our faces and told this is what we must believe, well, in most cases it’s not and we find these hard core righties just as crazy as you do, in most situation re: extremist p.o.v’s theses "leader" are not our voice, our voice is Americanism, just as yours is.
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Originally Posted by Wes Mantooth
The problem is that the batshit crazy people are the ones the press loves to show us, it appeals to emotion and drags politics down to its lowest common denominator which bumps up the ratings. Sarah Palin is money, Birthers, Tea Partiers are money, 9/11 truthers are money, controversy, conspiracies and so forth. Level headed debate over tax policies, foreign affairs and education is "boring", relegated to the back pages and used as filler between the real stories. The sad thing is neither party seems to make any real attempt at purging themselves of the lunatic fringe which only assists in making them that much more valid in the publics eye and the vicious circle continues.
But what does that really mean? Has "crazy" politics become the norm because its the only way to stay visible as a politician once you've lost power and in turn all the public finds interesting? I suppose the real question is why we find it so interesting and why we aren't simply dismissing the loons en masse for more important and relevant issues. It is a troubling trend to say the least.
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crazy politics are perpetuated here too.
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Originally Posted by Derwood
The truly dangerous people are those who are planning and scheming in the shadows while the public is being distracted by the non-stories (Karl Rove being the prime example)
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and now even those who are not crazy politics are wrong, just in the background trying to quietly destroy, and we are opponents again.
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Originally Posted by roachboy
seaver: i dont dispute that there were people who thought that way about the trade center. but that stuff was not used by the democratic party or any other political organization that i'm aware of to mobilize people, nor was it an aspect of anything like the tea party movement. i was pretty active in the anti-war movement, went to a ton of demos and it's not the case, no matter what you'd prefer to believe, that the conspiracy-theory set had anything like a public face within it. so there's no parallel. the right has gotten in bed with the lunatic fringe. personally, so long as they do not get into power i think it's funny.
but i worry about these lunatics getting power.
think early 30s germany.
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How is it that when you disagree you are right but when we disagree we are attacking you, even when we aren’t attacking you, even when we are just attempting to share our pov or our opinion, we are wrong and you all will go out of you way to prove it, harshly, gang style, and again, compared to tyrannical leaders who believed in genocide.
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Originally Posted by roachboy
how very pol pot of you ace.
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Originally Posted by Saloth Sar (May 19, 1928 – April 15, 1998), better known as Pol Pot, was the leader of the Cambodian communist movement known as the Khmer Rouge[7
and was Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea from 1976–1979. His time as the leader of Cambodia, in which he attempted to "cleanse" the country, resulted in the death of an estimated 1.7 to 2.5 million people.
Pol Pot became leader of Cambodia in mid-1975.[2] During his time in power, Pol Pot imposed a version of agrarian collectivization, forcing city dwellers to relocate to the countryside to work in collective farms and forced labor projects, toward a goal of "restarting civilization" in a "Year Zero". The combined effects of slave labor, malnutrition, poor medical care, and executions resulted in the deaths of approximately 21% of the Cambodian population
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The name calling, actually in this case, the comparison of somebody with conservative viewpoints to a “tyrannical” genocidic murderer, wow, we are tiring of being forced to choke on this brand of b.s. being shoved repeatedly down our throats there tends to be more and more comparison being made in this kin.
This comparison was made because ace “kinda” made a legitimate remark that he did not want to pay taxes for colleges that educate their students to believe that religion and the NRA are the base negativities of the American people and that though they pay their taxes so we can all attend college, it is o.k. to perpetuate the ignorance and bigotry of the working class people who pay for your “intellectuals” to attend said schools, that makes him a pol pot, whatever, just appears to be another way to whip the dog to me, eh?
What I find even funnier is how when ace does make an observation about how he feels the “intellectuals” view the hard working truckers, you attack him on both levels, he is being bigoted by being realistic about the emotional stanch of most truckers, who do work very hard at their career and their views as part of the foundation of American privateering (enemies being anything anti-American) and self employ and are a strong voice in the American freedom and free enterprise movement, you make him seem bigoted and denigrating of them, which merely exposes your own base perceptions of these people, who ace never made derogatory, you did, and then you whip him with the alternatives and claim he is bigoted and bias against intelligent people in which you claim intellectuals are always the right individuals even if these individuals are educated on the backs of truckers to believe that the industry is full of the uneducated bigots, even I could see he was making a comparison of one who pays taxes to educate those who look down on me, WHY? Why anyone should be forced to pay taxes for universities that teach intolerance of alternate p.o.v.’s. I don’t mind paying taxes for a school that teaches tolerance, period, not a bunch of “professors” who spew one-sided views of anti-American, republican vs. democratic rhetoric. Go ahead, attack away, I know it’s coming, and I am absolutely SURE you all believe I must deserve it, I am a republican after all, a hated conservative who believes in nothing you all believe in, right?
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Originally Posted by roachboy
reality is not the most important element here for ace. i learned that in the thread i made in which i was trying to assemble an idea of how this fiasco was possible and why it's played out the way it has. ace was of course entirely opposed to this reality business and instead quite insisted that things excluded a priori by the regulatory apparatus should happen and straight away and that it was some failure of leadership or some other conservative-specific Bad Thing which explained why this or that uninteresting thing that was entirely excluded by reality in any event hadn't happened yet. like firing bp when the regulatory system presupposes that bp would be the source of contingency plans and technologies fitted to deal with them. unless of course they're exempted from having to produce the plans. which minerals management did. but it's unamerican to point that out apparently. and it's obviously the fault of the government that they do not now have the plan and technologies that their regulatory system prevented them from having. so what we should do is assemble a dream team of really smart people who will figure everything out and then call a superhero to put it into motion.
it's really a joke.
meanwhile, lots of aspects of the gulf ecosystem die.
call superman now.
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You mean YOUR form of reality, right? the Pol Pot form of reality were we take one members pov and apply it to and then compare it with a hatemonger, genocide favoring, murderer, nice rb, and the entire, point finger, place blame, is again another thread where you attack the politics instead of the issues and when the issues are presented you start calling names and degrading others pov’s based on their party alignment.
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Originally Posted by roachboy
ace--you're getting similar responses from alot of different people in the various threads that you've used to repeat the same points and absurd questions over and over. all that's changed is where you tack on the story of your own martyrdom.
if you're getting similar responses from alot of different people, maybe it's time to reconsider how you operate.
personally, i don't think that the central problem is that you stage yourself as a "tea party conservative" or a "capitalist pig"---the problem is how you proceed individually, what you think is ok, what you think effective as conversational approaches.
you generate responses that are symmetrical with your own obtuseness more often than not. none of that is necessary. it follows from choices.
but let's not pretend that you're interested in dialogue. you aren't. i don't know what you think you are doing, but dialogue ain't it.
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Now ace is a martyr, his opinion is some great ideology not even remotely interesting to others, would it matter if it was, the attack you all seem to feel he “garners” are repetitive and isolating and just as name calling, and “gang” mentality as anything I’ve seen thus far, I find it a bit like rabid dogs yapping and yapping to torment someone they view as an inferior and to insure this participate understands his place within the pack, fuck this pack mentality, it takes the fun out of “being a part” of the TFP community.
Sometimes you all make it feel as though the only people with pertinent and viable information or opinions are those who believe the way most of you appear to, liberal, which is o.k. so long as being pro-liberal doesn’t’ also mean your anti-conservative.
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Originally Posted by Jinn
Are there any conservatives on TFP who aren't convinced they're being personally persecuted? I'd really like to have their input on these topics, because they deserve an actual opinion, rather than a few ramblings followed by pages of defensiveness. The only two I can think of are ace and pan..? Ustwo, but I imagine he's long gone by now..
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No Jinn, I don’t think there are, I feel most of the derogatory post I come across are personal attacks on my pov re politics, that is the reality of this, how can you name callers be so blind and then defend your positions with well, they used to say it to. We try to give our opinions and we are labeled pol pot and crazies and un-American and blah, blah, blah, you don’t want our opinions you just want to beat us for them. When we deny our “perceived” and put apon racism you call us liars again and proceed to throw more crazies in our faces and claim we believe them too, we are conservative, we are all alike, b.s.
Where would one go, leave TFP, maybe this is you intent, create a safe place for liberals to pat each others back because you all ran off the evil conservatives.
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Originally Posted by roachboy
ace--poor you. poor persecuted you.
i made the pol pot reference after the first of your ridiculous posts in which you outlined a biais against intellectuals, against university educated people, parasites who sucked the blood of ordinary working fellers blah blah blah.
stop with all this, will you?
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So you admit to the same thing you blame ace for, going to far to make a point, albeit in aces he spoke of trucker and “intellectuals” and you speak of person of obviously anti-humane views…. and then everyone of the your liberal friends join in and surround ace in both forums and yap, yap, yap. If this were anywhere outside of a forum this would be gang bashing bordering on violence, you are all attacking him for the same thing you all do the only difference is he is not a liberal like you all are, everyone plays the devil advocate at time, that doesn’t make them the devil, you do know this, right, for if it were true, you too would have horns.
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Originally Posted by Jinn
What I don't understand, considering your repeated attempts to cast yourself as the populist against political and academic elitism, is why you post here. If you truly think the educated are a social class detached from the particular concerns of the 'serf majority', then why bother discussing any issue intellectually? I have no respect for someone who believes intellectualism or education are negative things, because they've simply consigned themselves to ignorance in an effort to justify their beliefs.
If you're this type of person, truly so locked in your quotidian life that you're unwilling to accept that your opinion is not the best simply because you hold it, and that there are different levels of discourse, ranging from pub conversations to truly educated discussions about intellectual ideas, then why bother with a site which advertises itself as an 'evolution'? Why deliberately join a forum where people are attempting to advance their intellectual understandings of things to be the stick in the mud who is nothing more than an anti-intellectual?
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and now instead of responding to how ace feels by all these attacks we change our attacks and blame him for our attacks because we think he called us stupid when what he said was that he didn’t feel he should be forced to pay taxes to educate people who teach students to believe that the undereducated members of society are really bigoted, biased, racists, simple minded religious, rifle toting freaks set to destroy all liberals and convert America to fundamental Christianity. I think you all carry a lot of your own baggage and then view everyone who does not believe precisely the way you do as your enemy, or your opponent to be beaten, and beaten, until they leave or conform.
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Originally Posted by roachboy
there are some pretty deep political divisions amongst folk in the community.
it is obvious from past experience that we can talk across them or use them to grind discussions to a halt both pretty effectively and the second more often than the first.
i like to think myself pretty open, even if sometimes in the way an anthropologist is open about an "object" of study...curious wondering how x could possibly think as x does.
and mostly i think that's true.
but there are situations in which that closes down, interactions in which that stops. and because i like to think i'm pretty open, i tend to overlook or downplay those situations.
in the past few days i allowed my impatience with ace to get the better of me and allowed myself to be complicit in grinding two threads into powder.
the oil spill thread is still developing as the grim information about that grim disaster keeps coming and so there's momentum.
this thread is pretty much a corpse and like alot of corpse-threads has turned away from whatever points of discussion there may have been to pissiness.
we're small these days and there's no need to indulge heading down well-worn pathways to personal attack and vitriol. we're small these days and it's better to use that as a reason to be more open, not less.
so my apologies to the community for my part in allowing this to happen.
it bees like that sometimes though.
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It’s nice you have noticed rb, and I think you right rb, but the damage is done, and it is pretty damn painful to have witnessed, just as a newbie outsider, I would like to think the stress of this whole damn oil spill has hurt all of us and we are bickering in an attempt to extinguish emotions the best we know how, but it still hurts when somebody, with friends, seems to demonize an individual because he doesn’t agree with another’s political path.
The mentality of bigotry really grew to embrace many friends and nearly make opponents out of many us all.
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Originally Posted by filtherton
The problem is that people, specifically ace, are taking the "ace bashing" seriously. I've experienced disrespect here, and I'm sure everyone else has too. The key is not making a big deal out of it. This is a section of the forum for people with thick skin. That may be less than ideal, but it is also a reflection of how political discussions usually play out.
Also, talking about one's hurt feelings is an effective way of changing the subject, and if you look at the timing of when certain people start complaining about their hurt feelings, it seems that it's generally a way of avoiding having to say "I was wrong." So, as an example, when certain members pretend to be able to read Dennis Kucinich's mind and put words into his mouth and are called on it, instead of saying, "Look, I got a little out of hand in my characterization of the situation," instead we get "WHY DO YOU ASSHOLES ALWAYS ATTACK ME PERSONALLY?!?!?"
Besides, Ace seems to be here just to fuck with us, and doesn't seem too shy about admitting this fact. I think he likes the "persecution" we give him because it reinforces his notion that anyone who doesn't agree with him is unreasonable, which serves to further bolster his own sense of intellectual superiority.
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hmmmm, I don’t think anyone who participated in the bashing of anyone else his can escape ownership in this statement filterton, ace is not a lone wolf, as much as you all would like to make him one…… we are all a part of the same pack here, he just happens to be the one that doesn’t agree with the op and made the mistake of saying so, if this mentality continues people like myself, the_dundan, pan, ace, etc will be quieter and quieter until you entire forum is simply filled with game threads, won’t that be fun.
Find a better way to make your pov’s without personal attacks or broad sweeping statements debasing all conservatives, try to focus you remarks on an individual and to that individuals remarks and then wait to see where alliances lie, I think most of us would not be surprised to realize that the reality is we all want the same basic rights for all Americans, as well as all humans, and we mostly all believe in the same wrongs perpetrated by crazies on either extreme end of the party groups.
Or maybe your intent is to create the antithesis of fox the opponent of the conservative movement altogether, you can all start you own anti-republican website were debate is non existence until some unsuspecting righty shows up and then wham, you got em, only problem people read this and realize the one-sided p.o.v.’s and the attacks, and we just don’t come to play at all anymore.